Plugin API/Filter Reference/found posts

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Description

This filter hook allows developers to adjust the number of posts that WordPress's WP_Query class reports finding when it runs a query.

This hook is especially useful when developing custom pagination. For instance, if you are declaring a custom offset value in your queries, WordPress will NOT deduct the offset from the the $wp_query->found_posts parameter (for example, if you have 45 usable posts after an offset of 10, WordPress will ignore the offset and still give found_posts a value of 55).

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Articles

Article: The Loop - A basic overview of its use of query within the WordPress loop.

Article: Query Overview - Explanation of how to determine which queries generate WordPress.